The EfD-Ethiopia ( ECRC) and the Agriculture & Rural Development Policy Research Center (ARDPRC) in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen provided training on the Quantum Geographic…
Xu Jintao and Shi Xiangying attended the UN Climate Change Conference and UN Biodiversity Conference. Gathering with participants from various countries, Xu Jintao shared his research story on how to…
Payments for environmental services have been popularly used in environmental management and an increasing number of studies assesses their contribution to local livelihoods. This study employs propensity score matching with a dataset of 404 indigenous households in the Central Highlands of Vietnam to evaluate the effect of payments for forest environmental services (PFES) on their livelihoods. Participating in PFES increased households' employment and income from activities related to natural forests.
EfD researcher Marc Jeuland from Duke University visited EfD Uganda on December 1st. He was invited to share his work in the area of energy economics in a seminar and inspire research fellows and…
27 civil servants from five East African countries met in Rwanda on November 22-24 to discuss policies for achieving a green and inclusive economy in their countries. This cross-country workshop was a…
Forest ecosystem services are critical for human well-being as well as functioning and growth of economies. However, despite the growing demand for these services, they are hardly given due consideration in public policy formulation. The values attached to these services by local communities are also generally unknown in developing countries. Using a case study of the Mau forest conservancy in Kenya, this study applied a choice experiment technique to estimate the value attached to salient forest ecosystem services by forest-adjacent communities.
The Mpigi District Local Government and stakeholders in the forestry sector want environmental economists from Makerere University to conduct research on the impacts of decentralizing the governance…
The Eigth Annual Meeting on Environmental Economics was marked by face-to-face attendance and included the participation of representatives from the academic, political, business, and civil society…
A study conducted by researchers at EfD-Mak Uganda has shown that Chapati vendors could only afford to use the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cookstoves in their households. The study findings…